Stocks took a nice "Hit" too.

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/dea...-directed-health-agencys-recommendation/

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has made a historic decision—agreeing with the top federal health agency and moving marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA).

The decision comes more than 50 years after cannabis was first listed as a strictly prohibited drug, on par with heroin and defined as a substance with no known medical value and a significant abuse potential.

Moving marijuana to Schedule III, as recommended by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), also carries major implications for state-legal cannabis businesses. When it’s implemented, it will mean that marijuana firms can officially take federal tax deductions that they’ve been barred from under an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) code known as 280E.

The proposed rescheduling determination, first reported by the Associated Press, will also free up research barriers that are currently imposed on scientists who wish to study Schedule I substances.

The next step in the rescheduling process is for the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), to review the rule. If approved, it would go to public comment before potentially being finalized.

Sure is nice to have a government that tells us what we can and can’t do. Takes the burden away of deciding for ourselves.

Democrats and weed go hand in hand.

DEA Agrees To Reschedule Marijuana Under Federal Law In Historic Move Following Biden-Directed Health Agency’s Recommendation

I guess you haven't been to Oklahoma? Not exactly a bastion for democrats. Plenty of republicans smoke too.

The republicans went from being a party of less taxation and overall less government intervention to one that forces social issues and turns religious beliefs into laws. There is a reason Texas will go blue eventually and not just because of all the people coming from California.

to me that's the old party. It's now the working mans party and if the rino's get pushed out the tea party people should be the norm. think more libertarian.

I hope so. But until those old hard-liners are gone... it is not going to happen.

Learning opportunity:

“Even With Republican Support For Marijuana Legalization At Record High, Partisan Gap Persists As More Democrats Embrace Reform”

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/rep...e-democrats-embrace-reform-gallup-finds/

Need guys like Abbott, Cruz, and Paxton gone and replaced with Republicans that won't alienate 90% of the state's population.

Schedule 1 drugs are drugs "with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse."

Seems to me alcohol is a much more appropriate Schedule 1 drug than cannabis.

I don't have a dog in this fight, as I last messed with that stuff in college during the Nixon administration. That said, current federal policy is clearly irrational, scientifically insupportable and ridiculous. They better not start messing with my beer, though!

And they hate the law!!!!! drove up land prices and promoted alot of criminal issues

they both should be class one

I agree with you on many things, this isn't one of them. all you get for banning something is crime. Liquor gave us the mob and pot gave us the cartels.

What you talking ‘bout, Bob? The drug wars have been super effective!

Works best when bureaucrats determine law instead of elected representatives.

and the legalization gave us rehab centers across the country and road related death of 1.5 people on the hour every hour 365 days a year, dependancies and failing demographic areas(crime vs liquor store locations is interesting data)

I’m the most anti big government person out there, but as long as we have politicians getting pockets lined they are going to pick and choose industries funded vices, via back pocket cash, all will are doing are just picking the addictions, So lets just cut them all.

What is alcohol good for? Increasing stress hormones like Cortisol after you stop using it? It help you make better rational thought processes? Cleaning out your liver and better health? Fixing people problems? Make you better at your job? Make you better at parenting, Make you a better role model for your kids and people circle?

Hard argument for legalization of any recreational drug out side of personal freedom, which with the use usually impedes on the freedoms of non users(taxes, or direct harm, etc)

That can be said about a lot of federal policies.

FIFY

FIFY

Freedom, so long is it doesn’t negatively affect others’ freedoms, is all the reason I need.

How does drinking or smoking affect other people’s liberties?

Because pot smokers will consume around others who don't want to inhale their crap, I don't want your pot smoke and I sure don't want my grandkids around it.

So make THAT illegal. Making weed illegal because you don’t want to be around it makes no sense. Someone smoking it in their home doesn’t affect you.

I could live with laws that dictate where and who you could smoke around, some smokers would disobey the laws like they do now, but at least they could be prosecuted, actually there are already laws to protect children...truth is that if pot smokers only smoked at home, most of them would ever get caught. You probably see the issue differently than I do because you are a responsible adult but believe me over 45 years of dealing with pot smokers, I have encountered some real dummies.

Of course. And making weed illegal doesn’t stop them either. It only infringes upon the rights of law abiding citizens. Dumb people don’t care what the law is.